. This paper evaluates the technical efficiency of Italian public hospitals in light of the main features of the hospital … hospitals over the period 2000-2004 and applying DEA, a non-parametric method. Individual efficiency is partly explained by the …

differences between regions. It highlights the following: (1) the reduction in the number of hospitals and hospital beds and the … high level of migration towards northern hospitals; (5) with reference to costs, increasing returns to scale up to a given …